What is a hypothetical programming language?

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In a short excerpt from a contest question, I mentioned about various forms of algorithm representation and about hypothetical programming language .

What would be the definition of a hypothetical programming language? Is it possible to exemplify?

    
asked by anonymous 06.03.2017 / 14:00

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It has a great chance to be only referring to a language that does not exist, whose intention of the text is not to establish specific syntax or semantics of any existing language, just to exemplify the problem in general terms as it would be in an unspecified programming language .

The term is used without a great specific meaning in computing, but indicates that it is a language that only exists in theory for the purpose of explaining some concept.

A Wikibook using the term . Some books use the term:

06.03.2017 / 14:12